✨ THE OXYTOCIN LOUNGE ✨
A Platonic Touch Workshop for Women
The Yoga Cafe, Manchester | Sunday 29th of June 5-9 pm
Welcome to a restorative evening of nourishing connection, grounded presence and conscious cuddles.
Through guided practices in co-regulation, healing touch and embodied boundaries and consent, you’re invited to relax into your body and come home to yourself, with the loving support of other women.
In our tribal roots, women would come together to support each other to regulate in all their various cycles of womanhood. Women’s nervous systems need oxytocin releasing practices and safe relational connection to regulate. Sadly, our modern world has moved far away from these practices and women have experienced many ways of relational ruptures and lack of trust and support from each other. Women have learnt to take on more than their nervous systems are wired to do. On top of this, it is also common for women to experience a lack of awareness of their bodies and boundaries, and suppressed desires for the sake of taking care of others, and putting others' needs first.
It is time to shift things to more organic and tribal ways of being. When women come together to co-regulate, connect and use platonic touch, deeper layers of healing and empowerment can happen.
Through co-regulation in sisterhood trust can be restored and embodied safety can be experienced.
The Oxytocin Lounge has been created as a safe haven to explore what it is like to be deeply connected to our bodies’ signals, intuition and desires through deeply supportive embodiment practices. The power that can be experienced from these practices, has incredible ripple effects in our communities and wider world.
✨ The Oxytocin’s Lounge Benefits:
🌸 Experience Practices to Re-Wire the Pathways to Embodied Safety
🌸 Build Trust in the Support of Sisterhood
🌸 Experience Nervous System Regulation from the Inside Out and the Outside In
🌸 Have an Embodied Experience of Your Yes and Your No
🌸 Learn Ways to Tune into Your Desires and Ask for What You Want
✨ What to Expect:
🌀 Trauma Informed Practices
🌀 Guided Movement and Embodiment
🌀 Solo, Dyad, Triad and Group Touch/Cuddle Space Invitations
🌀 NON-SEXUAL Platonic Space
🌀 Embodied Boundaries and Consent Practices
🌀 Touch is not expected and only encouraged if it is in alignment with your desires/needs in each moment
🌀 Slow paced and supportive container
🌀 Grounding snacks and teas
🌀 Integration Circle
✨ Your Facilitators:
⭕ Raquel Rose, founder of Ancient Shakti Wisdom, is an experienced and trauma informed workshop facilitator. With a background in embodiment and dance, shamanism and womb awakening, Raquel Rose is passionate about supporting women reclaiming the ancestral wisdom within their bodies and wombs and deepening into the raw untainted human experience that is to be in relationship with self and others from a rooted and embodied place.
⭕ Rebecca is a trauma informed, embodiment coach, sacred circle and workshop facilitator with a deep passion for creating nourishing spaces where people can soften, explore, and come home to their bodies and unique self expression. Her work weaves together a delicious dance of presence, play, co-regulation and intimacy. She loves holding spaces of gentle, embodied connection, rooted in consent, care, and the art of relational listening.
✨ TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
💠 This workshop is non-refundable.
💠 If there are circumstances that prevent you attending the workshop, you must inform us as soon as possible.
💠 If you let us know you can’t make it within at least 48 hours, we can offer a transfer to a future workshop.
💠 If you let us know within less than 48 hours, we may not be able to offer a transfer. Facilitator discretion would be used here, depending on individual circumstances.
💠 Doors for this workshop would strictly close at 5.20pm.
💠 No refunds or transfers would be offered for late arrivals. Please plan your travel accordingly.
💠 In the event that we may need to cancel the workshop due to unforeseen circumstances, a full refund would be issued, minus the booking fee.
✨ AGREEMENTS:
👉 Sober Space
Please don’t take any drugs or alcohol before or during an Oxytocin Lounge workshop.
👉 Confidentiality
To honour confidentiality, only speak about your own personal experience outside of the Oxytocin Lounge space. Do not mention any names or experiences of other people that attended the workshop.
👉 All of you is welcome
Whether you are nervous, apprehensive, grieving, excited, joyful, angry - all of your emotions are welcome here.
👉 Non Sexual Space
No kissing, no touching of breasts, genitals or bums, clothing remains on during the workshop.
👉 Consent
Always ask for permission before before engaging in touch connection with someone and wait to hear a YES.
👉 Boundaries
If you want something, you say YES. If you don’t want something you say NO. If you are uncertain, say NO. You can change your mind at any point during the workshop and during any of the practices.
👉 Self-Care
Take radical self-responsibility for your self-care. Participate in a way that tends to your own needs and edges, moment to moment.
✨ DISCLAIMER: Trauma Aware Space
This is a trauma aware space and we aim to create a space that supports regulation and as much safety as it’s possible. It is important to acknowledge that we are humans and we get triggered and activated. This is even more true for intimacy and connection group spaces. We want to acknowledge that being in these spaces may trigger us into past trauma and trauma responses. The team is trauma aware and can offer emotional first aid - but these intimacy and connection spaces are not offering a process space for trauma and trauma response and/or resolution. Please seek out further support from experts beyond the cuddle workshops. Please email us at
cmFxdWVscm9zZSB8IGFuY2llbnRzaGFrdGl3aXNkb20gISBjb20= with anything you feel to share that may have impact for you in our group space.
All of you is welcome here.
BY PURCHASING A TICKET YOU AGREE TO ALL OF THE ABOVE T&C’s, AGREEMENTS AND DISCLAIMER
Tickets:
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We aim to make this event as economically accessible as possible whilst also honouring the facilitators overheads and time and effort put into curating these spaces (which is a lot!). We encourage you to choose a ticket tier that truthfully honours your position and also the way in which is possible for you to support these events happening.
From the depths of our hearts, thank you, and we look forward to sharing this experience with you.
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